ABSTRACT
The future of British manufacturing is of immense importance and topicality. As we slide towards a service sector economy based on finance and tourism, it is worth reflecting on whether this is the most appropriate or inevitable scenario.
Manufacturing in Transition makes a genuinely interdisciplinary contribution to the debate over the UK's strategy for industrial renewal. Aimed primarily at business, economics and industrial relations students, it looks at the current state of British manufacturing sector within the global economy and asks whether manufacturing matters in the twenty first century.
The books explores key issues such as:
the chances of renewal
* developments in the management and organisation of operations and supply chains
* the differences made by Japanese methods
This is a timely assessment of the UK's industrial development and makes a major contribution to debates over the industrial strategy and the position of manufacturing within industrialized economies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|79 pages
An appraisal of UK manufacturing
part II|68 pages
Manufacturing management in transition
chapter 6|20 pages
Leadership in the front line
chapter 7|17 pages
Mature firms in the UK mid-corporate sector
chapter 8|19 pages
Continuity and change in buyer-supplier relations
part III|100 pages
Policy implications for future development